Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We are growing as the municipality develops with more residents, more housing, and expanded services. We are always looking for new expertise – employees with different backgrounds and experiences, united by the drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and settle in.
One of our teams within social support services is now seeking an engaged and confident unit manager who wants to lead the operation forward together with competent employees and who wants to contribute to developing support for Jönköping residents during a time when the mission is changing and being intensified.
Your New Job
Effective July 1, 2026, a national activity requirement will be introduced within social support services, meaning that individuals who have received support for an extended period will be offered and expected to participate in activities that strengthen the path to work, studies, and self-sufficiency. This reform creates new demands on collaboration, operational development, and lawful case management. As a unit manager, you will have a central role in leading the implementation, developing effective work methods, and creating good conditions for both employees and residents. Together, we work toward increased participation, reduced exclusion, and more pathways to self-sufficiency.
In your role as unit manager, you are responsible for leading, developing, and monitoring operations within the social support services area. You have personnel, work environment, budget, and operational responsibility and work closely with other managers and collaboration partners both internally and externally. You create conditions for employees to succeed in their assignments and drive development work with residents' wellbeing in focus.
As a unit manager, you will, among other things:
lead and distribute work within the unit
be responsible for personnel, work environment, and finances
ensure lawful case management in accordance with legislation and guidelines in the field
work with quality and development issues
support and coach employees in daily work
collaborate with other operations, authorities, and external actors
contribute to strategic development within the social support services area
Your Qualifications
We are seeking someone with a completed and approved social work degree or other completed and approved relevant bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits.
Further, you have several years of experience in social work within government administration, preferably in economic assistance/social support, documented management experience from a politically governed organization including responsibility for operations, budget, and personnel. You have good knowledge of relevant legislation in the field and experience driving successful development and change initiatives.
As a leader, you are direct and clear in your communication and practice close leadership while leveraging employees' abilities. Your work is characterized by structure and planning in a way that contributes to security and predictability for employees. You have experience collaborating with others with good results. Thinking creatively and being skilled at implementing and managing change are qualities we value highly. A Class B driver's license is required.
Great weight is placed on personal suitability.
What We Offer
We offer you as a manager individual salary setting, mentoring, and work in a management group with a strong team spirit and engaged and capable colleagues. We are now looking for someone who wants to make a difference and develop our operations! Read more about our benefits here
Welcome to Us
Individual and Family Services is part of the Social Services Department and is organized into three areas: child and youth services, adult services, and social support services and integration.
The Social Support Services and Integration area comprises economic assistance, integration housing, immigrant and refugee services, budget and debt counseling, and interpreting services. The area employs approximately 95 employees distributed across six units, each with its own unit manager. There are also employees responsible for investigating incorrect payments and operational development.
Good to Know
In this recruitment, 1 permanent position, full-time, is being filled with start date by agreement. A probationary period may be applied. Assessment tools will be used.
Selection and interview invitations will take place after the application deadline, week 34. Interviews for the position will be held week 35 on Wednesday, August 26, and week 36 on Monday afternoon, August 31. If you apply for the position and are called for an interview, you need to be available.
In your application, we want you to include a CV and attached diploma and current certificates of employment. All your employment must be verifiable with certificates showing your position and the extent of your work. Even if you already work for us, you need to provide diploma and certificates of employment for positions you have held outside the municipality. Applications that do not meet these requirements will not be prioritized.
This position is job-evaluated and is in base group J. For more information on the position's salary range, see: Salary and Salary Statistics
Before employment, you must submit a relevant extract from the criminal record and suspicion register.
Want to Know More?
Recruiting manager, see information box. Union representatives: Union Soc
Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position!
Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.
For the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore politely but firmly decline all inquiries about advertising and recruitment assistance.Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different professional roles. We are growing as the municipality develops with more residents, more housing, and expanded services. We are always looking for new expertise – employees with different backgrounds and experiences, united by the drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and settle in.
One of our teams within social support services is now seeking an engaged and confident unit manager who wants to lead the operation forward together with competent employees and who wants to contribute to developing…